Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0c581ca751dbd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 21:05:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 83ee7a2c7f21c3cc06fbdb519ea009aa SHA-1: 98c49e05526a92395c69586ad35afb52e5070cd2 SHA-256: cd0c581ca751dbd5838021f1e4a4f440486f9a851784cc9f2eadc11426ffd71f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=estimation+costing+and+valuation+by+dutta+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xolofiwano/hiHhigi/xagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sorubajuzoxe/jbhbgdU/vowogadozuwanimaturimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://1a6c606f-1efd-495f-9370-57f425d809fd.filesusr.com/ugd/1be480_dc780f74ef0f48ba96273121540bd1af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92077813-3e8d-4df0-970e-21f4f641e907/6395331193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2ba8674-e69c-4b4e-abb3-b9c50326942a/how_to_turn_diagnostics_on_casio_fx-9750gii.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/106f45ce-333e-40f8-b104-0be53da49216/39786429194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85ce44ae-dab9-40ae-9704-a73017050703/baxabijemujiwefazonemigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jarirotexab/anjathe_movie_songs_starmusiq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a3c2524-0e4d-4220-9886-a1eeaa477535/90421310353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30621b86-6952-4b41-80af-4d24d830bc7c.filesusr.com/ugd/122077_67b10080c15246e7a6426d8483b8c457.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://625f08e2-3d8e-45b5-8e8c-b95d001c5c7c.filesusr.com/ugd/d94ae5_313eaf0145634b61a53c9ffca5441f81.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://31f314b5-0768-4c24-bd49-4596ea953b46.filesusr.com/ugd/85a4b1_f7e2a86278b443d284d104325676a775.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e40a8be-1b9f-4ee2-a7ea-3ba1717b2249/kikigajavisapovukonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acec9c22-a8c8-46f8-97d3-7b1f7536cc7b/literary_term_allusion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddf6304d-6518-4da2-8d4c-11fd6c6f6783/it_project_management_excel_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b5c90759-dbf8-4ccd-b12d-e23c958527f9.filesusr.com/ugd/915a55_1ca4a51431de479da9f61ee7c0a1c2d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75e6d08a-b14f-4c2c-bd4e-3e6431d9d11c.filesusr.com/ugd/497a87_1a863621e68849ba8717608c44a4a8a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aae9972d-c2aa-4c05-8cf7-ccebe569151d/maytag_mfi2568aes_ice_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/117fc234-e14c-49d7-9914-c0fd93cbe31f/administration_job_titles_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mibiwivanetuj/13522021828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1a6c606f-1efd-495f-9370-57f425d809fd.filesusr.com/ugd/1be480_59ce3fafe8654224abd1c86316eb8ed5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB28 5404 bytes
SHA-256: eff204340669d6f18f59c831b0de7a858fd9f7c93ab4eceddda044a016a1bc89
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD77 10824 bytes
SHA-256: a9e40fda7cb219ed00b0c09f8c2f72522355cab110502c846a11a167e6afadd2
font_02_sfnt_off0001228d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333